Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @JeffreyGoldberg: A teacher assigns his students a Ta-Nehisi Coates article from @TheAtlantic. Then he gets fired by his school district… — PolitiTweet.org

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Well, vaccine production capacity, test and trace, drug development, vaccination campaigns, capacity to track virus variants, hastening pace of FDA approval... — PolitiTweet.org

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An interesting exercise: if starting in 1991 we'd shifted 2 percent of the defense budget to public health how many American lives would have been saved/lost? I suspect the number is big. — PolitiTweet.org

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And pay it forward by continuing to allow liberty-loving people to immigrate here and become Americans, benefitting themselves and our polity with their talents. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/BSSgutJ1xi — PolitiTweet.org

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@austinjennie I favor reimagining the police https://t.co/DNtdCpk7ZJ I oppose defunding it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@austinjennie But that isn't what I call for — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @rasmansa @eReGeBe @shallit43 @ajrowebot I understand too, and I disapprove, because they are phrasing things in a misleading way, many people see that, and it undermines faith in their message. Public health authorities need to be more scrupulous in their communication to regain public trust. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 They are trying to beat back misinformation but in doing so they've strayed into misinformation themselves--they've asserted something that has not been proved. Their style of communication is corrosive of trust in public health authorities because people see through the cheats. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 @ajrowebot I don't believe and did not say it was bad faith. That is yet another example of you asserting things I did not say! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 The context is an attempt at public health communication that is sloppy and irrational, which undermines faith in said messages. Given that context, you too should be concerned rather than apologizing for their flawed communications — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 @ajrowebot It's a consistent thing you do: *By x do you mean y, a thing that is dumber than what you said?* — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 @ajrowebot Because context matters you should stop superimposing your presumed context on my Tweets and then proceeding as if I was operating from the same understanding — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 Simply read the actual text of what I say and don't presume some additional meaning — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @shallit43 @ajrowebot This is a thread about the AAP's claim — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ajrowebot @ijbailey You should read Revolt of the Public — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ijbailey I agree and none of that cuts against my point — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ajrowebot @ijbailey *Sigh.* The absence of evidence that masks harm the communications development of babies is not evidence that masking does not harm the communication development of babies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ajrowebot @ijbailey It is a substantive claim, not a catch phrase — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ijbailey For the analogy to hold you must believe that masks harming communication development is something we should not take seriously, like a tea cup orbiting Jupiter. Is that your position? — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ajrowebot @ijbailey I suspect this is the root of the matter. You think logically flawed and misleading communication is okay so long as it cuts in the direction you think people ought to behave. I do not think that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ajrowebot @ijbailey If they had cited such a study no one would have objected. We did object because they treated absence of evidence as evidence of absence. We've established that it isn't obvious to you why that is problematic, but it is obvious to many of us. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 @ijbailey The obvious interpretation of the tweet is that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence in either direction. — PolitiTweet.org

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@shallit43 I grow tired at @ijbailey repeatedly responding to Tweets of mine not by reacting to what I actually say, but going a step farther to what he thinks must have motivated me to say it. He is usually wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey My point is something you are missing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stowZJE @jmtangerine What do I misunderstand about policing in your view? — PolitiTweet.org

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The relevance of this view and the outsized place it has in criminal justice reform circles is that more politically viable and sensible ideas are starved of attention. "But you're punching down" is not a good retort to that argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Grits4Breakfast @Jeff_Hedges I don't punch up or down. I analyze what's best as best I can and advocate for those things, regardless of who is for or against them. And you should too. — PolitiTweet.org

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What a flagrant and absurd misrepresentation of a piece (and a thread!) that not only explicitly noted the position of elected Democrats but also invoked it as evidence for my actual position. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Grits4Breakfast I'm beginning to doubt your account of events in Texas https://t.co/Wa9gkL3Y3P — PolitiTweet.org